The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-02-03
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC,


The Governor Of Ohio has appointed OK,
Pres dent X, b, Hayes TO be trustee of the
Ohio Stlte University for the term of seven
years beginning May H. and tho appoint
ment was confirmed by the Senate.
About 200 cases of giant powder exploded
while IN transit in q magazine car over the
Missouri Pacific road "a half milo west Of
Fort Scott, Kan, Fifteen of the % freight
cars were completely demolished, and the
magazine ca was blown to atoms. The
engine was badly broken Up,
A SPECIAL from Spokane Falls Wash,
SRys; Terrible suffering exists on the Coville
reservation, 50 miles north, smallpox having
broken out in the tribe with great fatality.
Deep Snow has prevented hunting, and gov
eminent supplies have been inadequate.
Hugh Sutherland, president of the Hudson
Bay road, running from Winnipeg, Man, to
Hudsons Bay, announces that the company
will spend Sl,00O00o tho coming year in
construction.
Ex-Treasurer Holingsworth of Knox
county, Ind, who decamped last May with
$50, 600 of the public funds, recently created
sensation by walking into the court room
at Vincennes, and giving himself up to Judge
Mallott
The 'longshoremen's strike in New York
and vicinity continues; the estimated nuns
Der OF workmen now out reaches 5000.
oHiN " INV OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
are able TO leave their docks
The jury in the case Of Beiral, who was in
dicted III New York for attempting 10 murder
Surveyor Beattie last November, have rem
dered a verdict of guilty.
c. j. Winship, constable and collector of
the town of Weston, VT. has defauted in
the sum of 5000 which his bond men must
pay.
Five Of the men engaged in the recent
robbery of the railroad train at Gordon,
Tex, have been arrested. and the prospect
is that the other three will be captured.
The great railway suit of Sarah A. Angle
against the Chicago, Portage & Superior
Railway company at Maids on, Wis, for
violation of cont act has been concluded. The
jury rendered verdict for the plain if of
1851 ,965 50.
Reports from the west show that heavy
snowstorms prevailed in western Dako a
and eastern Montana. Trains on the North
eln'Paciiic railroad and other roads are had
ly delayed.
Black diphtheria is raging near Madison,
Wis, The schools at Wonuakee have been
closed and the town quarantned.
Tie Little Rock, Mississi, pi River &
Texas railroad has been sold under the fore
closure of mortgage, Jay Gould being the
purchaser. The price paid was s., 500, 600
The road runs from Little Rock TO Arkansas
City, a distance of liz miles, connecting
W tn the iron Mountain road at Little Rock
Ark Gould was the only bidder.
Americans in the vicinity of Lewis Cove
in Perry, Me, are indignar at the fact that
there are several fishermen from st. An
dre"'S i'll the cove, as when the fish seek the
other shoI 10 the war vessels of the Dominion
SO q any American vessel found inside the
limit
A recent fire at Vanceboro, Me-, destroyed
the fin large steam mill u ,ed by The Vance
boro Wooden Ware Company in the manu-
facture of kiln dried hardwood lumber. Loss
about 1000; partly insured, About 100
men are thrown out of employment
Diphtheria prevails to such an extent in
Shelter Island, L. l., that the public schools
have been closed to prevent lis spread The
disease S said to have been brought from
Boston.
The treasurer of the Germania bank at
jersey & ty has robbed that institution of
$4,000, and left for parts unknown. The
depositors will lie pal in full.
The largest and fastest passenger engine
ever built was recently run out of the Rhode
Island locomotive works at Providence.
During the week ending Jan. rs, 1887, 1878
gallons of soup were distributed and CLOG
meals provided bv the city of Boston. The
reports of corresponding week of this year,
show the number of gallons to be 1912, and
the number Of meals 800